Decades of failed peace talks have led nowhere; but do not lose hope just yet. Join Robert Foster as he attempts to host the first ever Middle East Peace Raps, using rhyme and reason to bring together Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu, and a representative of Hamas. We investigate the key arguments, counter-arguments and ad-hominems from both sides. But the picture would not be comp ...

Edward Said, author of the groundbreaking work "Orientalism" and a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, was one of the most prominent literary and cultural critics in the United States. His writings about the Middle East and its relationship to the West have had a major influence on both scholarship and public opinion. [events] [glopubaffairs] Credits: producer:U ...

" The Jewish State" of Dr. Theodor Herzl. As always happens in such historic moments, the man unto whom it was vouchsafed clearly to grasp the idea of which many had a dim presentiment, and to give eloquent expression to the word that many had awaited, now appeared. This man was Dr. Theodor Herzl. In the autumn of 1896 he published a concisely-written book, " The Jewish State," (Der Jude ...

ONLINE ENGLISH BOOK you find HERE ONLINE BOOK in GERMAN HERE "Moses Hess's "Rom und Jerusalem," a prophetic book that appeared in the sixties, was held in higher esteem. It was the first to proclaim the idea of Jewish nationalism amid the general transport of emancipation and fraternisation. It raised a veritable storm of indignation among the German Jews, intoxicated with t ...

What is Israel’s definition of a Jewish state if it does not conform to ethnic and religious purity? (Tali Mayer / ActiveStills) Palestinian negotiators have a miserable task – each time they approach the Israeli position, the Israelis demand more. One would have thought that the “Palestinian Versailles” – as Edward Said called the 1993 Oslo accords – were enough of a con ...

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Gaza policemen train, even though they are not getting paid. (Photo M. Omer) From his post by the wall of the Gaza City headquarters of the International Commitee of the Red Cross, a policeman watches what’s happening across the street. Today he sees a long line of Palestinian Authority (PA) employees waiting to collect their salaries in cash—a typical sight in the early days of every mon ...

There’s a common mistaken assumption that Israelis’ hostility towards Palestinians and Arabs is based on a justified / deluded (take your choice) sense of the danger they pose. Israelis’ insecurity, it is often believed, derives from centuries of persecution of Jews around the world. In reality, this is only a part of the story. There is also a deeply entrenched sense of separateness that ...